asheville. each part of the state is having unique issues. some are more ice, some are more snow, and we did a good job with the roads and putting materials on the roads. but it only takes one or two accidents in metropolitan areas to block a major highway like i-40 or i 77, which intersect in our state. so we are dealing with abandoned cars in certain areas, namely the raleigh-durham, greensboro, and charlotte arias, and we have a plan to not only clear the abandoned cars for tonight but also help people get out of them and deal with it. people not even going to the duke/carolina game tonight. i encourage others not to go. watch it on tv. our major concern is public safety and the health and safety. we've had two fatalities in the last 24 hours. this actually started 16 hours ago in the fayetteville area in the mountains area and continues to spread. we are amongst three different weather patterns in our state we're dealing with. >> i know it's a big basketball game tonight, duke and north caro

and vermont could see the biggest amount, 16 inches of snow. >> ten inches in asheville alone, they're not built for that accumulation, and all the wires down for a long time. al roker, part of our team, thank you. >>> almost perverse to say this given the suffering going on in the u.s. tonight, but here at the olympic winter games, the story was the warm weather today, close to 60 degrees. and that is not good for the conditions or for the athletes trying to compete on the course. chris jansing in sochi tonight with a report on all of it. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian, two ski jumpers crashed tonight during training on what was described as a tricky landing area. already, they have had their practices limited because of the wind. and while the weather has not forced the cancellation of any competition, had has made for some dangerous conditions. spring came to the winter olympics in sochi today, 59 degrees, beach weather on the black sea and a balmy 50 degrees up on the mountain, where it counts. >> the weather is absolutely gorgeous which is, of course, challenging,

asheville now at 50 degrees. atlanta at 59 degrees. good indication of what's on the way as we move through the metal of the upcoming work and school week. seeing lightre snow, especially off to the north and west of d.c. it's not going to amount to a whole lot. you may see a few flurries in the distance. accumulations will be limited. this is a look at our futurecast as we move through the west of the evening and overnight hours. temperatures tonight will fall through the 20's. no problems at all. clouds will increase. willdnight, light snow develop. a fast-moving clipper. as quickly as it arrives, look what happens as we move to 1, 2, 3:00 in the morning, it's will to the east of us for the rush-hour commute. around about up way. our temperatures from there on will continue to increase. there's a look at our forecast for the overnight. temperatures 24 to 29 degrees. highs tomorrow will be in the 30's. morning sunshine will decrease as clouds increase. once we get that clipper out of morning, ouresday temperatures skyrocket. near 60 o

along asheville's stretch of the river is a coal fired power plant, owned by duke energy headquarteredina. the single largest electric power holding company in the country. early last year an environmental group in that area started looking into this site, specifically looking into the huge amounts of coal ash stored at that plant. the group was concerned the coal ash was contaminating the local groundwater. so in january of last year, they filed a notice of their intent to sue duke energy in federal court. under the federal clean water act you can do that. citizen groups can file lawsuits over environmental right violations, but there's a sort of stray thread, maybe, loose, loophole, maybe, something to worry about. they have to give the state regulators, they have to give regulators in their state 60 days' notice in case the state wants to take action on its own before the citizens case can move forward. so this group filed a notice of their intent to sue duke energy. and then on the 58th day after the notice went out, the deadline was 60 days. on the 58th day, sure enough, north car

. >> i live in asheville, north carolina, and fin lives down in new orleans, louisiana, so i don't seee to. it was a way of sending him a more intimate version of a card. i wanted to make him smile. ♪ he's been climbing things since shortly after birth and there's nothing he canned build with some leggos and he's filled with more energy than the oceans filled with surf ♪ ♪ speaking of the ocean fin can sail and he built a boat from wood without nails ♪ ♪ because his dad's an engineer and a sailor who can steer through any storm and he's a good dad without fail ♪ >> it sounds like fin is a pretty busy guy. it sounds like he has a lot of hobbies. >> did you want to tell them about sailing? what do you like about being on t a sailor? >> being on the water. >> now i got to do it with everybody, right? >> yeah. >> love you, buddy. >> that's it for "rtm," everybody. we'll see you next time. watching. a big hello to my friends.

the state's proposed settlement for contaminating the groundwater in asheville and contaminating the groundwater in charlotte is duke would have to study the issue of how they were contaminating the groundwater in places like that. but they would not have to clean up any of the contamination that they had caused. and they would not have to stop contaminating the groundwater or do anything different at those sites. they would have to pay a fine of less than $100,000. a one-time fine, and that would cover both sites. if you're keeping track at home, that's a fine of les than 10% of what duke energy has given pat mccrory in campaign contributions over the years. they're a $50 billion company. the "associated press" today says among the material the u.s. attorney is seeking with these subpoenas is the correspondence between the state and duke energy about that sweetheart proposed settlement. after the "ap" ran this blistering expose on that deal this past sunday, the next day on monday this week, the state asked their proposed settlement in that matter be put on hold at least for now. af

asheville's getting hit.nd greensboro is about to get hit and raleigh later on this afternoon for a second round. but the good news is no one's at work or trying to get home from work during the next day. so it should be quite a bit easier. and we've also retrieved and made sure there is no one stranded. there was no one stranded that we know of over the night in any of our major metro areas. we made sure of that. >> i want to do -- >> -- in the past two weeks. >> i wanted to ask you and i don't know if you have this information because it's all sort of coming in on the live lines, but there are two deaths now being attributed to this storm in your state. i don't know whether they're traffic-related. i'm not sure if you've been briefed on it yet. >> we've had two traffic-related deaths and also a death from a falling branch in one of our rural counties. and that's the only concern we have right now is the public's safety. and we're expecting more power outages tonight. and that is a very big concern because a

devon st is done to the southern city of asheville to canton with this in his defense the crowd hoping the main group to convince the beatles some three dozen people were bad state. devotees that this is compulsory but once it's released the government's moves to end the practice which is extended to tens of thousands of ultra orthodox who were in full time ready to start the new legislation has not been complete its dutch authorities are toughening enforcement of existing lol. the austrian of them. the celts in the store to melton west opened its doors on the late night the austrian delegation includes one hundred and thirty after the nation's largest even the mighty history of the winter games also what present to the house opening but among the athletes to join in celebrations was here all the plants get the co host who can compete in her second olympics after winning silver and to rid two thousand and six. let's give a care the carriage gaza was also present for the festivities at both the domestic parents this is the custom of such occasion was guest of the austrian house will wel

there's augusta and it was felt all the way in atlanta up to asheville over toward columbia, south carolina. interesting. it's not that unusual, but it's interesting. there are fault lines in the southeast. 36 in rockville, 35 in lovettsville, 37 in leesburg, very few folks below freezing. someone reston is 31 and laurel, but most folks are above freezing. so we'll keep it a yellow alert tomorrow morning, a conversational clipper, if you will, light snow or snow showers. a little accumulation except in the mountains. it's really an elevation driven snow and surface temperatures too warm for problems in the metro area and because it won't snow hard it won't overcome that. here's the map. 4 inches in cumberland, 6 inches in oakland but very little in the metro area, a lot of zeros and .1s. it won't stick on the roads. overnight mostly cloudy, cold, light snow, rain south and east, lows 27 to 34, winds east, northeast at 10. in the morning a few flakes early but still above freezing, low 30s 9:00, 11:00 still flakes, no worries. 1 clock getting windy and -- 1:00 getting windy and beginning to

while coming out here and on our team in asheville with scotland's independence referendum the evening britain faces the prospect of losing the union jack the sacked. so many things but to the states. r tx to britain's how old they would feel about seeing them by the iconic national flag the eye. to noon. i use in ntu. he he they do. to me. i did. each. i design trends due to the opal jewel best way to the heart of moscow he has gone. guy. margins why not. wanna know what's really happening to the global economy. you concentrate more on rte the new. the other eye the what u r t a natural proper bombers recent data monitoring angela merkel's communications at four a state as a deterrent to other sources for your pdf reports say the agency has switched it to spying on hundreds of german officials including interior minister argued with the gossip has it he tells from berlin. the national security agency was allegedly monitoring three hundred and twenty people here in germany mostly politicians also business leaders. according to a german newspaper care bill dance on top which says if inf

tel aviv and carry out hundreds here in asheville some straight talking on the world's most troubling issues in so we go but if you are watching us in the u.k. prepare to go on the ground with. a transit route to vnukovo report you'll best way to the heart of moscow. belmont told him a language of all but i will only react to situations i have read the reports so unlike the pollution from a no i only meant to stay kind of comment on your latter point i come on to say it's six am a car is on the docket no god. no face jail no more weasel words. when you have a direct question be prepared for a change when you throw a punch be ready for a battle freedom of speech and a little down to freedom to question. the medium leave us so we leave the media by the suv push the suv to the other party visible. pushes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politics only on our t.v. . but. you know. a pleasure to have you with us here today i'm sure. it. welcome to sophie and co on sophie shevardnadze ukraine's age old split between east and west is flaring up a

we even have an account if you think he is still locked in and enjoy other than that of downtown asheville a blind eye at the moment god that he is the mother stopped along the way and the people were taken to the athlete because here's an event that there are black bikini at restaurants and bars everywhere and if this one because russia has been protesting at the curling it i've completed overnight. a lot of people i'd like to keep picturing for their team as well. add the shrimp and are happy that the convict or under former queen to attract eat here have garnered the top where the country now as for the lifting of the gains are ongoing with a lot of people are still bleeding with a laugh it up to the most popular and nothing can take it the event of the key which is related to his heating and cooling it known that i had pictured the border pradesh walk up and think you will be on heating. our group and the mind boggling what it will top thirty hit will be key. and you have commented that she doesn't feel about that caught the eye condition that the expert in how it after that the church

to clean up and this same story is becoming all too common in this country whether it be a coal asheville north carolina or chemical spill in west virginia people and the environment are being victimized with no one held accountable believe it or not just in the first month and a half a dozen fourteen there are already been thousands of gallons of oil spilled in minnesota new york pennsylvania and several other states involved debate continues over how safe the keystone x.l. pipeline would be phase one of that project has already leaped over ten times in its first year in canada but unfortunately regulations aren't very strange. for reporting the leaks according to the state department's assessment keystone x.l. would quote have to spill more than twelve thousand barrels a day before its internal spill detection system would trigger an alarm what why such a rush told maybe because then test the bait they're going to spill a hell of a lot of oil according to the e.p.a. there almost fourteen thousand oil spills reported each year in the u.s. not to mention the ones not reported so how much

in my home state, asheville is one of the cities. >> the simple answer is the fiber is run to the pollr the curb and for a small fee, you pay to get it connected. if you want slow speed connectivity which is about five megabits, we will give it to you free for seven years. most people like to pay the roughly equivalent internet connection fees they do today and they get almost one gigabit speed up and down. it is revolutionary. >> in terms they have not seen anything like it. >> the speed is so much greater. are people clamoring for this? >> yes, they are. >> you take this rhodes scholarship out there. what intrigued you about things like artificial intelligence and robotics? >> in the book, we have a line -- in the future, computers and human beings will split duties compared for what they are good at. that being said, we all want to automate certain parts of our lives and preserve other parts. there are no shortage of people that are looking at artificial intelligence. you think about veterans coming back from iraq and afghanistan and the possibilities available to them in terms of l

train ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ take a look at the video of lightning striking in ashevilleare without power. tonight protestors are predicting severe storms and strong wind. does include possibility of tornadoes and even blizzards. >> : the conditions are part of a large front will be likely more severe weather this week until >> : the story of extremes. tornadoes and severe thunderstorms and parts of only answer to south pre and lizards and what the conditions of north and iowa and minnesota. it's all part of the best of all been sort system storm system to >> : cold and hot air mixing bush'. >> : eight tornadoes in central illinois. several buildings were destroyed and mechanics prepared and what people have lost power in the sacred some areas saw flooding could which was fuelled by melting snow and heavy rain. in all colder temperatures of north blizzard conditions in minnesota. >> : i want what was rain than 30 minutes later snow. >> : 46 years old and i've never had a winter like this. never consistent days of being cold. >> : cold front of the current system will be s

we have snow for places like asheville. towards the end of the week, this will move up into d.c., new york city. here is the snowfall across the southeast. through thursday morning, asheville, roanoke, up to a foot of snow. snowfall for the northeast, 8 to 12 inches in d.c. and new york. 5 to 8 inches in the area in the light purple and that will include the new york city metro area. further up to the west, lower totals. looks like this will be a significant snow event for the northeast as we head into the end part of the week. and significant icing, again, for places like columbia, south carolina, and atlanta, georgia, and one of those big risks with the ice storms is that potential for power outage.s. we'll keep an eye on it. >> alex, thank you, i think. this is the winter of the gift that just keeps on giving. >>> in the meantime, kraft is removing artificial preservatives. sorbic acid is being repleased by something that is a natural mold inhibiter. this is the latest sign that companies are tweaking recipes as american

roanoke, greensboro, asheville, big cities with big snowfall totals with all of these warnings all thexas. it's going to be a mess in atlanta, not so much tonight, but by wednesday morning, there won't be one plane, i don't believe that takes out of hartsfield jackson airport. they may cancel them all. you get a quarter of an inch of ice on a plane, it's not going to fly. >> that's a major hub, atlanta, it could affect travel all over the country. >> no question about it. so many flights through here, i think they're not even going to take planes and put them here on tuesday at all, especially tuesday night. they move them south or move them north because they don't want them encased in this ice. this ice could be here for a week. there will be people without power for a week or more. you get that many millions without power, it takes a while for the lines to get back up. what a winter it's been. >>> two members of congress have a special message for the nfl. if the washington redskins don't change their, quote, racially offensive name, we might hit you where it really hurts, your pock

origins of my first -- something max perkins wrote, to the most important in his life, thomas wolfe of asheville and it was this, there could be nothing so important as a book can be and the fact that you all are here this afternoon proved that to me as well. thank you. [applause] [applause] >> mr. bird has agreed to take a couple questions, we ask you speak to the microphone. >> i recall reading that in a delegation sent over to the side peace treaty -- verisign peace treaty, he did not include republican members. >> wilson took over, wilson took a delegation at the end of 1918 for the first six months, was gone for six months, delegation of five, he does have one republican in there but he was a much older man, wasn't really in the political mix so you raise a really good question, why didn't he think it through and realize why didn't he bring more republicans? wilson felt what he was doing was bigger than partisanship and he knew he was going over now for the first time an american president was going to sit down at a table with representatives, leaders of 24 countries, each with a very detai

go to asheville state park and see the astonishing fossils. it looks like a hollywood movie. there are rhinoceroses commit three toed horses. in nebraska, none of those animals are extinct today and they were buried catastrophically by a volcano and what is not idaho, now yellowstone national park. other hotspot, super volcanoes remarkable thing. as i can and northwestern around st. helens, full disclosure in the mount saint helens board when it goes off a cassette agree to a cast that's toxic and not these animals that appear looking for relief they go to a watering hole. on the ash comes, it is an extraordinary place. now in the battle case you had her problems, they went right away cut you open. now we use a drug based on rubidium to look at the inside of your heart without cutting you up in. now my kentucky friends, i want you to consider this. right now, there is no place in the commonwealth of kentucky to get a degree in this kind of nuclear medicine, the kind of drugs associated with that. i hope you find that troubling. i hope you are concerned about that. you are sci

origins of my first -- something max perkins wrote, to the most important in his life, thomas wolfe of ashevilleand it was this, there could be nothing so important as a book can be and the fact that you all are here this afternoon proved that to me as well. thank you. [applause] [applause] >> mr. bird has agreed to take a couple questions, we ask you speak to the microphone. >> i recall reading that in a delegation sent over to the side peace treaty -- verisign peace treaty, he did not include republican members. >> wilson took over, wilson took a delegation at the end of 1918 for the first six months, was gone for six months, delegation of five, he does have one republican in there but he was a much older man, wasn't really in the political mix so you raise a really good question, why didn't he think it through and realize why didn't he bring more republicans? wilson felt what he was doing was bigger than partisanship and he knew he was going over now for the first time an american president was going to sit down at a table with representatives, leaders of 24 countries, each with a very detail